How quickly America is, apparently, going to hell. Not more than a month or so ago we were a plantation. Now, it seems, were on the verge of becoming a police state.

I could use this bandwidth now to muse over the Dubai Doo Doo. Or over the prolongation of the Patriot Act. Or a million other worthy subjects. But, instead, I want to focus yeson Hillary.

After what she said the other day  that some GOP immigration proposals would create a police state  I simply have no choice. Too outrageous. Cant let it pass. Someone, somewhere has to take five minutes to underscore the gross and rather macabre hypocrisy thats involved here.

So let me start with the lede: While our current immigration mess has bi-partisan roots, it was precisely the Clinton administration that is most responsible for our contemporary border nightmares.

In 1993-94, Bill Clinton made a conscious decision to pander to the illegal immigrant fever then sweeping California and ordered Janet Reno to blockade the border  or at least those portions of it in public view that could cause him embarrassment. The traditional urban crossing points for migrants  San Diego, El Paso, Nogales etc.were barricaded with steel, sensors and Border Patrol agents in what was, essentially, a policy of deterrence by death. No dent whatsoever in the migrant flow was achieved by the Clinton policies. Desperate immigrants merely went around Clintons blockades, trekking into perilous and unpopulated deserts, using their bones and blood to sear new routes of entry.

When Clinton came into office, a few dozen people (at most) would die every year trying to cross. By the time he left office, that figure had climbed ten-fold to an average of 300-400 deaths per year. The full consequences of that policy are brilliantly discussed in this policy paper by UCSD demographer Wayne Cornelius. If you want to know what the real life policies of the Clintons are, read it. If you want to persist in campaign-spun fantasies, please dont.

Much worse, the Republican Congress and President Clinton cynically used the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to levy two horrific punishments upon immigrants and on immigration policy. Indeed, for those who actually work in the field, 1996 is remembered as the dark year of a perfect storm, to quote leading immigration lawyer Dan Kowalski. In his own policy analysis of that period, Kowalski reminds us that two bills signed by Clinton  the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigrant Responsibility Actlanded two deadly body blows to the immigrant advocacy community.

These two pieces of Clintonian legislation  waving the anti-terrorism flag every much as manipulatively as Bush would a few years later tightened the grounds of exclusion and deportation, tightened some waivers and removed others, made detention mandatory for vastly greater numbers of deportable aliens and radically restricted judicial review of immigration agency action, says Kowalski.

In short, the Clinton bills turned U.S. immigration policy and especially the immigration courts ever more Kafkaesque  a sad reality with which immigration lawyers grapple every day of the week. Walk into any federal immigration court at anytime and watch the Clinton-engineered deportation railroad doing its grim duty.

Can anyone provide us, then, with a single, on-the-record statement from Ms. Clinton expressing, at the time, any concern for a police state? Id love to see it. Did Ms. Clinton believe it was a police state tactic to exploit a bombing by a couple of American loons to justify a crackdown on immigrants? (Not to mention the concurrent stripping of rights from death row inmates included in the same anti-terrorism bill promoted by her hubby).

What we can show you are the memorial crosses for the 3500 migrants who died as they were pushed deeper into the desert by Clintons various border operations We can show you the deportation orders for literally tens of thousands of legal immigrants (thats right, legal green-card holding permanent residents) who have been deported and in many cases have had their families shattered thanks to the policies imposed by Bill Clinton.

So Hillary, on this subject at least, have the minimal decency to hush.

LOL. She won't hush, she knows the short memories of Americans will make them forget their horrible record on immigration. Even the fact that she has not introduced a single immigration bill the entire time she has had that great office of hers...

Just the thought that it might even be remotely possible that Mrs Clinton could run for the most powerful position in the world leaves absolutely NO DOUBT that this country is certainly f.........ed.

What is amazing is that she is a clever snake. Had she have handled the Monica thing differently she would not have escaped with this popularity. Be it as it may it was actually Bill who was popular, he could have won a third even having been a whoremonger and a liar. That proves to me that the average American gives not a damn about ethics or real quals, we just want hollywood type popularity to represent us in our government.

We're screwed honey! It isn't going to get better. Kids are getting fatter, people care less about everything that matters, no one gets a gold watch anymore and I haven't tasted apple pie since I don't know when. It's all relative to todays attitude. Remember when little boys went out on saturday morning with one goal in mind and that was to locate a ball game. You know what I mean. Video games rule childrens lives now, we actually believe what we see on TV (everything). The press has won the information war.

The Hildabeast would certainly have been better off to shut up! Every time she speaks she loses popularity so she shouold take your advice. As it stands she could probably make a decent claim to the D's nomination, if she continues to speak her opinions she will screw that up so I say, "SPEAK HILLARY".

Hillary is a nightmare, but like John McC I do not think she'll get elected. McC will not get through the primaries, Hillary will, though she will wound the party, perhaps fatally. She will not get through the general elections.

The rest of your concerns, some are valid, though not as worrisome as they may appear. I still make apple pie!

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